6-letter words containing p, i, c
- placid — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plaice — a European flatfish, Pleuronectes platessa, used for food.
- plicae — Zoology, Anatomy. a fold or folding.
- poetic — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- police — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- policy — a definite course of action adopted for the sake of expediency, facility, etc.: We have a new company policy.
- pontic — an artificial tooth in a bridge.
- precis — a concise summary.
- pricer — (especially in retail stores) an employee who establishes prices at which articles will be sold, or one who affixes price tags to merchandise.
- pricey — expensive or unduly expensive: a pricey wine.
- pricky — prickly.
- prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- psocid — any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- psoric — a cure for psora
- ptotic — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- pumice — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- pyknic — (of a physical type) having a fat, rounded build or body structure. Compare asthenic (def 2), athletic (def 5).
- pythic — Also, Pythic. of or relating to Delphi, in ancient Greece.
- rechip — to put a new chip into (a stolen mobile phone) so it can be reused
- recipe — suspension
- repics — the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- riscpc — (computer) The final addition to Acorn's Archimedes family of personal computers, released in April 1994. The RiscPC allowed a second processor, e.g. an Intel 486 or a second ARM, to share the bus, memory and peripherals with the main processor. It also had full 24-bit colour graphics support. The Risc PC 600 (the first to be launched) had the new ARM600 processor and RISC OS 3.5. The RiscPC 700 had an ARM710 processor and RISC OS 3.6, and the SA had the StrongARM processor and RISC OS 3.7. RiscPCs are among the most energy efficient home computers.
- scampi — a large shrimp or prawn.
- schipa — Tito [tee-taw] /ˈti tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1965, Italian operatic tenor.
- scipio — Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major [puhb-lee-uh s kawr-neel-yuh s,, af-ri-key-nuh s,, -kan-uh s,, -kahn-] /ˈpʌb li əs kɔrˈnil yəs,, ˌæf rɪˈkeɪ nəs,, -ˈkæn əs,, -ˈkɑn-/ (Show IPA), ("Scipio the Elder") 237–183 b.c, Roman general who defeated Hannibal.
- scrimp — to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
- script — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- septic — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- simpac — Early simulation language with fixed time steps. "Simpac User's Manual", R.P. Bennett et al, TM-602/000/000, Sys Devel Corp, Apr 1962.
- specie — species.
- specif — specific
- spiced — Food that is spiced has had spices or other strong-tasting foods added to it.
- spicey — seasoned with or containing spice: a spicy salad dressing.
- spiric — a type of curve
- splice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- tcp/ip — TCP/IP is a set of rules for putting data onto the Internet. TCP/IP is a written abbreviation for 'Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.'
- tipcat — a game in which a short piece of wood, tapered at both ends, is struck lightly at one end with a bat, causing the wood to spring into the air so that it can be batted for a distance.
- tricep — a triceps muscle, especially the one at the back of the upper arm.
- tropic — Geography. either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone. the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- unclip — to become unclipped
- unpick — to take out the stitches of (sewing, knitting, etc.).
- upcoil — to make into a coil
- uptick — a rise or improvement in business activity, in mood, etc.
- v-chip — a computer chip or other electronic device that blocks the reception of violent or sexually explicit television shows.
- wickup — An onomatopoeic representation of the chirp of certain species of flickers.
- wicopy — the leatherwood, Dirca palustris.
- xy-pic — (graphics, publication) A package for typesetting graphs and diagrams using TeX. It is structured as several modules, each defining a custom notation for a particular kind of graphical object or structure. Example objects are arrows, curves, and frames. These can be organised in matrix, directed graph, path, polygon, knot, and 2-cell structure. Xy-pic works with LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and plain TeX, and has been used to typeset complicated diagrams from many application areas including category theory, automata theory, algebra, neural networks and database theory.
- ziploc — a kind of transparent plastic storage bag sealed by joining special strips along the edges of the opening